Mapping Bexar County’s voting sites

To figure out where you need to vote on Election Day, Bexar County’s Web page offers some nice tools. You can type in your address here, or type in your voter registration here, and the location of your voting site will pop up.

But things get a little more difficult if you want to see where all the voting locations are in your area. Bexar County’s Elections Department only posted a list of sites in pdf format. There’s no map, so it’s hard to visualize where, exactly, these sites are located.

There are many user-friendly online tools that map data. One of them is a free Web site called ZeeMaps. I cut and pasted the list of of voting locations and their addresses into a spreadsheet, then uploaded the information to ZeeMaps. It plotted the location of each site and created an interactive map that allows you to zoom in on your neighborhood and look around.

I’m using this map today as I visit various voting sites. I thought I’d post this for anyone else who might find it useful. It could be handy for campaign workers or supporters who are driving around town. Looking at the map, it’s also easy to see the sheer scale of Bexar County’s network of polling sites.

Any other Web geeks out there who have their favorite mapping tools? Feel free to share.